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Sunday, September 22, 2013

Endre Blog Tour Guest Post: "Five Fun Facts About Me" by ST Bende

A couple weeks back I celebrated the release of friend and author ST Bende's Endre, the second book of The Elsker Saga, and today I have the author herself stopping by the blog as part of her blog tour! (Read more about the book here.) Welcome ST!

Five Fun Facts About Me

by ST Bende

Last time Tiffany was sweet enough to let me visit
y’all, I shared five Five Fun Facts About Elsker. This time around, I thought
I’d share five things about me. Here they are, in no particular order:

(1)I
am a HUGE IndyCar fan -- something I share with Elsker’s Inga. I watch every
race, squirrel away technical nuggets about the cars, and may or may not pick
my favorites just because they’re cute. Does anyone else think cutie-pie
British driver James Jakes looks like a certain Norse God we know and love?

(2)Imagine
Dragons is my hands down favorite band. Like, ever. I have a playlist of about
twenty-five songs I regularly write to, thirteen of which belong to The
Dragons. Because they’re just that awesome.

(3)I am a total geek. I love Star Wars and Marvel
and The Big Bang Theory. And just like Sheldon Cooper, the only animal I’d ever
want to be eaten by is The Kraken, because the last words I’d hear would be
RELEASE THE KRAKEN!!! (Didja know The Kraken is Norse? Apparently it hangs
around the coasts of Norway and Greenland. Cool, right?)

(5)I
cried when I wrote a certain scene in the garden of Ydalir in ELSKER. The one
that ends with the champagne -- that one. Because I knew exactly how scary that
moment was for Ull. And I cried again when I wrote a certain scene in ENDRE --
the one in the church, where Kristia’s wearing her grandmother’s dress. Because
I saw that scene through Ull’s eyes, and I knew that moment meant more to him
than he would ever be able to articulate. I tell the stories through Kristia’s
POV, but Ull and his deeply buried
vulnerability constantly tug at my heart. I love that god soverymuch.

Thanks so much for letting me visit again, Tiffany! Now tell me -- does anyone share my love of
Imagine Dragons? If not, what are your favorite songs to read/write to?